PBURROUGHS                                             Gretel …so the father sought a rich wife and mother for his children. with her thread to home and her chicken bone fingers; all she ever wanted was to be seen for who she was by her father who wanted not her, but some pounding rhythm on the planked bed of straw and worn ticking with the Stepmother. Well, now he knows what a daughter will do to gain her father’s attention. Smacking her lips, licking her fingers, tasting sugared houses and roasted witches, she waits with wet fingers and crystal-rimed mouth for daddy I have attended several universities (University of Texas, University of St. Thomas, University of Houston [totalling about 1000 hours])but never graduated -- I consider myself in post-graduate studies of life. I am a writer, mother, teacher, bookkeeper, gardener, quilter, recorder player, god seeker, dog lover, cat tolerator and student of the odd. I was born in 1951. I have been published in The Inkling (an English Department Magazine of Tomball College, Tomball, TX) three times. PBURROUGHS		lilip Member Directory Newest Members OnSite Poets Become a member Philosophy Message Board Lingerings Resources,Links and Webrings Search WOAW! Legalities Contact All material submitted by poets and authors remain in their copyright and is not available to be added to any anthology, collection, website, or any other use;personal or otherwise, without the author's permission. Issue Seven BasicFred Nadia Brown Janet Buck Anne Fraser Rosemarie Koch Kelly Ann Malone Marlene McCarty RL Mobley Dianna Morton PJ Nights PBURROUGHS Elena Ray Summer Rogers tanya-cherie
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